Laser Welding for Strong Connections
Advanced Restorations with Laser Technology in Cyprus
M. Makris & Son Dental Lab in Nicosia uses laser technology to construct and repair the metal components of cast partials, attachments, bridges, and implants. The result? Producing higher quality restorations in less time. Our innovative laser welding technique offers precision and strength in dental restoration, enhancing the quality of dental work and enabling the successful performance of more complex and intricate restorations. Give your patients many reasons to smile!
Laser Welding in Dentistry: Precision, Strength, and Innovation
Laser welding is a technologically advanced method for joining various dental materials, particularly metals, with high precision and minimal heat impact. Because metal, acrylic and porcelain can be distorted or damaged by conventional soldering and welding, making repairs has, up until now, required us to rebuild the prosthesis. Laser welding eliminates this time-consuming process, allowing for finer work and stronger joins. Among other alterations, we can now add teeth and saddles, restore worn-out clasps and reconstruct broken major and minor connectors without removin=g acrylic or teeth.
Enhanced Durability
Laser welding creates stronger bonds, ensuring long-lasting dental restorations.
Increased Precision
Allows for more detailed and intricate work, essential for complex dental restorations.
Uses of Laser Welding in Modern Dentistry
Laser welding has become an indispensable tool in modern dentistry, offering advanced solutions for creating and repairing dental restorations. Its applications include:
Fabrication of Metal Appliances
Ideal for creating metal dental restorations like crowns and bridges.
Repairing Orthodontic Devices
Precisely fixes orthodontic devices, ensuring their effectiveness and durability.
Adjusting Dental Frameworks
Allows for precise modifications in dental frameworks for a perfect fit.
Joining Small Parts
Essential in complex restorations, where it accurately joins small, intricate components.
How Does Laser Welding Work?
Laser welding uses a highly focused, laser-produced light beam that can melt metal with pinpoint accuracy while generating very little heat. This ability yields multiple benefits, like making microscopically precise connections, even in close proximity to complex parts, because little to no heat transfer occurs during the joining process.
Moreover, laser welds can be made directly on the master model, maximizing accuracy and reducing remakes. They also allow for increased control of thermal expansion variables. Unlike soldering, a laser welder makes parent metal connections. Distortions are less likely to occur during the welding process since expansion coefficients of the metal and porcelain remain consistent.
Last, using parent metals rather than foreign alloys reduces the risk of allergic and galvanic reactions. Research indicates that laser welds are 260% stronger than traditional solder joints, 43% stronger than microplasma welds and 95% as strong as the original alloy (LMT, June/July 1995).
The Advantages of Laser Welding in Dental Restorations
Laser welding has revolutionized the field of dental restorations, being now an
essential part of a modern dental laboratory. Some of the most important benefits
of this dental technology are the following:
Reduced Turnaround Time
Enables the accurate and meticulous repair of dental appliances, essential for intricate work.
Improved Quality & Fit of Restorations
Creates durable joins, ensuring longevity and reliability of dental restorations.
Reduced Thermal Stress
The focused heat application preserves the integrity of materials, enhancing the quality of the final product.
Ideal for Complex Restorations
Its minimal invasiveness makes laser welding perfect for delicate dental procedures.
Reduced Risk of Allergic Reactions
Using parent metals rather than foreign alloys reduces the risk of allergic and galvanic reactions.
Increased Comfort
Although stronger, laser welds are less bulky than traditional solders, providing greater patient comfort.
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